Fastening device.



J. BAYER, J11.

FASTENING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 4, 1911.

INVENTOR WITNESSES Patented Apr. 16, 1912;

JOSEPH BAYER, an, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING nE vIon.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

' Application filed April 4,, 1911. Serial No. 618,887.RE1S

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrri BAYER, Jr., a citizen of the United States,and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in-FasteningDevices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enablethose skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to fastening devices, and particularly to classdesigned for use in securing price tags or other marks to cloth orfabric, and the object thereof is to provide an improved fasteningdevice of this class which is simple in construction, effective in useand comparatively inexpensive and which is devoid of sharp points andwhich can be used without scratching or cutting the hands and which willnot engage with any other piece of cloth or fabric except that to whichthe tag is secured.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanyingdrawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my invention are designated by suitable reference characters in eachof the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of myimproved fastening devices ;F ig. 2, a side edge view of a price tagshowing two of my improved fastening devices connected therewith ;Fig.3, a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing the method of connecting the tagand fastening device with a piece of cloth or other fabric ;-and, Fig.4:, a view looking in the direction of. the arrow 4 of 3 but on areduced scale.

' n the drawing forming part of this specification I have shown at a, apiece of cloth or other fabric and atb a price tag connected therewithby means of my improved fastening device 0, two of which are employed.

The fastening device 0 is made from a piece of stiff wire bent centrallyas shown at c in Fig. 1, to form two similar side portions which arecompressed together to form a double shank c of predetermined length andwhich extends to the point a, from which point the side portions of thewire diverge, as shown at 0 to a predetermined pointas at 0, from whichpoint the end pordevices of this tions are doubled and pressed togetherto form parallel shank members 0" which are bent to form hooks c and theshank portion 0? projects at right angles to the parts 0 and c which areall in the same plane and the hook members 0 are also parallel and in aplane parallel with that of the parts 0" c and 0 as clearly shown inFigs. 1 and 2.

In connecting the tag I) with a cloth or other fabric, two of the hookor fastening devices areemployed and the tag is placed in the hookmembers 0 or said hook members are slipped 011 over the opposite sideedges of the tag, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, after which the shankmembers 0 are passed through the cloth or fabric a, as shownat (Z inFig. 3, and then bent in opposite direc: tions to form hooks 0 It willbe understood that a tag or similar device of any desired size or shapemay be thus connected with any kind or class of fabric or similarmaterial, and when made in the manner described my improved fasteningdevice or devices are devoid of point-s or sharp port-ions and will notcut or scratch the hands, and said fastening device or devices will notengage or stick into any fabric or cloth other than that to which thetag is applied.

Having What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A fastening device of the cl ss described, comprising a wire bentcentrally to form a doubled penetrating shank of predetermined length,the parts of which lie close together and from which said members thendiverge to a predetermined point from which point side portionsextendparallel, said parallel side portions being folded and the endsthereof extended toward the shank and bent back upon themselves to formtwo parallel hooks opening toward the shank, the ends of the wire beingfinally arranged close to the parallel side portions and inside thesame.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 3rd day of April1911.

JOSEPH BAYER, JR.

Witnesses: 7

C. E. MULREAMY,

G. A. MANDEVILLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

fully described my invention,

